"Solar Beaverton helps 258 homeowners add rooftop panels"

The city is touting it as the largest one-time community-based solar program in Oregon.

By Steve Law, The Portland Tribune

Beaverton, tired of being overshadowed by
Portland when it comes to green initiatives, announced its Solar
Beaverton program has resulted in 258 residential solar installations,
in league with the successful Portland Solarize programs on which it was
based.

The city-led Solar Beaverton program began in 2010
with a pilot program and then expanded. As with Solarize, the city hired
one solar contractor, in this case LiveLight Energy, to outfit
participating homes, and provided homeowners with technical and
financial advice.

Solar Beaverton increased the solar panel permits in the city by 2,500 percent in the course of the two-year program.

The city is touting it as the largest one-time community-based solar program in Oregon.

That may be a shortlived claim. The latest phase of
Solarize Northeast, now under way, hopes to enlist 400 to 500 people to
add residential solar energy, which would mark the largest single
expansion of residential solar project in Oregon history.